652 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Taylor. That is the reason it might be wholly unnecessary to 

 have a drastic acreage allotment. 



Mr. Pace. I believe we are about convinced on the record showing 

 over the last 30 years of high priced wheat and low priced wheatr that 

 the consumption of food remains the same. 



Mr. Taylor. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. In fact, taking into account the increase in popula- 

 tion, it has substantially gone down. 



Mr. Taylor. The per capita consumption has decreased as the 

 population has increased. We do not have nnich hope of increasing 

 the domestic consumption, but imder this plan we do have hopes of 

 increasing tremendously the consumption for other uses. 



Mr. Pace. I am trying to understand your plan. I have no oppo- 

 sition to it, because, whenever the wheat growers say they want a 

 thing, it is going to have my most sympathetic consideration. But 

 you criticize the marketing quiota plan as being subject to terrific 

 controls. Cannot we agree that your plan, to the extend of the por- 

 tion of the crop that is subject to certificates, would be under com- 

 parable controls, would have to? 



Mr. Taylor. I do not intend to criticize the marketing quota plan 

 in itself. As far as I personally am concerned, if we have acreage 

 allotments, I think we have to have marketing quotas, too, in order 

 make allotments effective. 



Mr. Pace. The point I am making is that 3^ou propose 



Mr. Taylor. We would have a certificate allotment. 



Mr. Pace. You propose under the certificate plan that you would 

 go to the producers and give them, under some formula of certificates, 

 a quota representing that part of their production that goes into food 

 in this country. 



Mr. Taylor. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Are not you going to be faced there with exactly every 

 problem, every complication, and every feature of control in deter- 

 mining how many certificates you get as you would under the mar- 

 keting quota plan to determine how many acres you would get? In 

 other words, generally speaking, is not the question of control out of 

 this program so far as the two plans are concerned? 



Mr. Taylor. There is this difference: under your market quota 

 set-up, that is part of the production control program; under the 

 certificate plan, you would allocate the certificate allotment to each 

 grower, even though you might not have any restricted production 

 in effect at that time. But the method of determining it would be 

 on the bushel basis under the certificate plan rather than on the 

 wheat produced or the acreage, as under the marketing quota plan. 



Mr. Pace. Then you would have more control and complications, 

 because you would have to go back and determine how much wheat 

 he had been growing, what the yield had been over whatever term of 

 years is agreed upon and then figure out what his fair share of the 

 certificates is going to be. 



Mr. Taylor. I do not quite agree with you there, Mr. Pace, for 

 this reason, that the county committees all have the wheat records of 

 farmers' production for each year. Each year it has been reported, 

 although it has not been required, in fact, ever since the inception of 

 the AAA program. 



Mr. Pace. And the records have been kept uniform? 



